Re: [Swarm-Support] development priorities (was Re: Membership in Swarm Developmen Group)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

glen e. p. ropella wrote:

> That way you're not doing all the
> work yourself and you see a higher ROI.
[,,]
> In fact, one of the early ideas that we never pursued was to
> integrate generic search tools for characterizing and searching behavior
> spaces.  JJ Merelo developed a GA tool for that specific type of search
> and Rob Keweley implemented something a little more generic; but, those
> were two particulars in a class of search related methods.
>   
Optimization is well-covered by packages like R 
(http://www.r-project.org).   Better, I think, to make a simulator (or 
whatever a next generation ABM tool is thought to be), embeddable in a 
clean way in popular analytical packages.   One part of that is avoiding 
gruesomely-slow I/O of large time series files, etc.